US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Oct. 14 for "Convolution and transformer-based image segmentation" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,055, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Convolution and transformer-based image segmentation" was invented by Xin Li (San Diego), Jiancheng Lyu (San Diego) and Yingyong Qi (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are provided for image processing. For instance, a process can include obtaining an image; extracting a first set of features at a first scale resolution; extracting a second set of features at a second scale resolution (lower than the first scale resolution); performing a self-attention transform to generate similarity scores for the second set of features; adding the similarity score...